Impact of surgical program size

The clinical advisor from HealthStat advises you to check the number of healthcare professionals (operating providers) per patient as well. Your task is to verify whether patients that have more healthcare professionals available in a facility, have shorter LOS and costs.

While the source data doesn't explicitly contain this metric, we can easily calculate it ourselves.

We do not recommend doing so, but if you lost progress, you can load the solution workbook of the previous exercise 2_3_outliers_solution.twbx from the Workbooks folder.